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NASA Flight Control

Last night NASA said in a statement: “After a morning of investigations, the crew reported that the leak was isolated to a hole about two milimeters in diameter in the orbital compartment, or upper section, of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft attached to the Rassvet module of the Russian segment of the station.

“Flight controllers at their respective Mission Control centers in Houston and Moscow worked together with the crew to effect a repair option in which Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos used epoxy on a gauze wipe to plug the hole identified as the leak source.

“As the teams were discussing options, flight controllers in Moscow performed a partial increase of the station’s atmosphere using the ISS Progress 70 cargo ship’s oxygen supply.”

Mission flight control officials are now closely monitoring the space station’s system for additional warning signs.

ISS LEAK: The breach was located in a Russian module of the space laboratory (Image: NASA)

ISS LEAK: The breach was sealed with some epoxy and a gauze swab (Image: NASA)

Russia’s space agency will carry out additional analysis for other leaks.

NASA stressed none of the six astronautswerein any real danger fro the leak.

The space agency told its astronauts “no further action was contemplated for the remainder of the day”.